The Palestinian refugee issue is a key factor to reach a consistent resolution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In order to accomplish it the first thing to do is to give a perspective on the situation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians,
and their descendants, who were banned or had to escape with the war of 1948. Today they are almost five million. Despite of its importance for the peace process, this topic was not considered with the deepness that requires. Palestinians are supported by the resolution 194 of the United Nations General Assembly and request their Right to Return. On the other hand, Israeli part disputes this right to return with three aspects: A) The responsibility upon the escape/expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. B) The existential need to be a Jewish state: the return of the Palestinians
could represent a loss of the Jewish majority. C) The fact that Israel has already received thousands of Jews from the Arab countries. This thesis analyses how the Israeli political parties treat this issue and how the «new Israeli historians» can help changing the Israeli point of view with questioning the Zionist discourse of the 48 war.